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Re: Heritage Cricket Bats in Lincolnshire
« Reply #30 on: October 24, 2011, 02:58:09 PM »

check out the facebook page as there are some good pics on there - for 86.95 posted i took a punt - am sure it will be great!
Hmm. Me too. I'm taking a punt on a Spitfire LB LE at £115. Can't really complain at that price. Will be interesting to see the delivery time in comparison to other custom makers. I was quoted three weeks/mid-November.
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Re: Heritage Cricket Bats in Lincolnshire
« Reply #31 on: October 24, 2011, 03:08:46 PM »

The only thing I'm concerned about is how they don't show any out and out profile photographs anywhere! Perhaps because each bat is made to order, but you'd think they'd have a photo of the stock shape...
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Re: Heritage Cricket Bats in Lincolnshire
« Reply #32 on: October 24, 2011, 03:19:52 PM »

The only thing I'm concerned about is how they don't show any out and out profile photographs anywhere! Perhaps because each bat is made to order, but you'd think they'd have a photo of the stock shape...
I wondered that too.
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Re: Heritage Cricket Bats in Lincolnshire
« Reply #33 on: October 25, 2011, 01:08:28 AM »

I thought the same thing when I stumbled across the site---for the price why not roll the dice. I'm leaning towards the Spitfire, but I have still to hear from him even after Paypal---he should be recovered from his holiday soon, I hope. I agree that the pictures are somewhat frustrating both with regard to the full profile, and just a whole bat, handle and all, so one gets a sense of the bat as a totality. Did you see the 3 lb limited edition "Spitfire masquerading as a Typhoon"---now THAT would be a gamble (too heavy for me).
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Re: Heritage Cricket Bats in Lincolnshire
« Reply #34 on: October 25, 2011, 07:14:44 AM »

I don't think it really matters what model you buy, because apparently you can specify a shape when he contacts you - it's just a case of sticker preference.
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Re: Heritage Cricket Bats in Lincolnshire
« Reply #35 on: October 25, 2011, 12:57:45 PM »

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I don't think it really matters what model you buy, because apparently you can specify a shape when he contacts you - it's just a case of sticker preference.

On my interpretation of the information on his website and FB page, there are two distinct models. The Spitfire---a traditional, shotmakers bat, and the Typhoon, a thick edged, modern, sub-continent type bat. The pictures show quite distinct bats (look at, eg, the triangulated toe of the Typhoon vs the "normal" toe of the Spitfire). If it were all up in the air, and one just chose stickers then why does his FB album have a "Spitfire masquerading as a Typhoon" with the explanation that he put the wrong stickers on a Spitfire? I suppose you could just ask to get a Spit with Typhy markings, and he might well do it, but I do not think that is his intent, or the norm.

  I like the use of British WWII aircraft as names. His "bomber" special bat should get a better name, the Lanc, the Mossy, (both bat and plane made of wood) Swordfish. Many good names in the hopper: Hurricane, Tempest, Seafire., Firefly.

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Re: Heritage Cricket Bats in Lincolnshire
« Reply #36 on: October 25, 2011, 03:19:53 PM »

On my interpretation of the information on his website and FB page, there are two distinct models. The Spitfire---a traditional, shotmakers bat, and the Typhoon, a thick edged, modern, sub-continent type bat. The pictures show quite distinct bats (look at, eg, the triangulated toe of the Typhoon vs the "normal" toe of the Spitfire). If it were all up in the air, and one just chose stickers then why does his FB album have a "Spitfire masquerading as a Typhoon" with the explanation that he put the wrong stickers on a Spitfire? I suppose you could just ask to get a Spit with Typhy markings, and he might well do it, but I do not think that is his intent, or the norm.

  I like the use of British WWII aircraft as names. His "bomber" special bat should get a better name, the Lanc, the Mossy, (both bat and plane made of wood) Swordfish. Many good names in the hopper: Hurricane, Tempest, Seafire., Firefly.
His use of names is due to where he lives. The "Battle of Britain Memorial Flight" flies from close by and there is also a  Eurofighter Typhoon base that flies over the wash where there is a bombing practice range. Hence his first bat is from seeing Spitfires of the memorial flight overhead, and the Typhoon from seeing the Eurofighters. If he had been making bats there in the past, he would also have probably called them Tornado or Thunderbolt as those were the two plane types you saw most frequently whilst growing up there.
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Re: Heritage Cricket Bats in Lincolnshire
« Reply #37 on: October 25, 2011, 06:27:31 PM »

Yes, I believe his dad was in the RAF so he has a military aviation link - I remember him posting about whilst I was working on the Typhoon Front Fuse assembly line
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Re: Heritage Cricket Bats in Lincolnshire
« Reply #38 on: October 25, 2011, 08:00:11 PM »

I shall get him to make me a Lancaster then.

As they were used by the dambusters whose headquaters was (and still is) in Grantham, 20 miles away, but my home town :D

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Re: Heritage Cricket Bats in Lincolnshire
« Reply #39 on: October 26, 2011, 05:19:50 PM »

I keep forgetting that there was a jet Typhoon. I always think of the great rocket firing ground attack plane  that led the way for Horrocks' XXX Corps in the ill fated Market-Garden (aided now and again by the ugly, but effective, P-47)

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Re: Heritage Cricket Bats in Lincolnshire
« Reply #40 on: October 26, 2011, 05:49:49 PM »

WAS a Typhoon jet? There still IS a Typhoon jet!
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Re: Heritage Cricket Bats in Lincolnshire
« Reply #41 on: October 26, 2011, 06:28:09 PM »

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WAS a Typhoon jet? There still IS a Typhoon jet!

Oops  :-[  .   As the son of a WWII veteran and a left wing peacenik---I suppose I have spent more time studying that conflict than keeping track of the extant weapon systems of allied nations, my bad.

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Re: Heritage Cricket Bats in Lincolnshire
« Reply #42 on: October 26, 2011, 06:37:06 PM »

No worries. Just bantering - I work for the lead contractor on Typhoon so it's close to my heart
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Re: Heritage Cricket Bats in Lincolnshire
« Reply #43 on: November 08, 2011, 02:41:48 PM »

Anybody's arrived yet???
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Re: Heritage Cricket Bats in Lincolnshire
« Reply #44 on: November 08, 2011, 07:01:37 PM »

not yet, i have sent my requirements but still waiting for more news...
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